What an exciting time! I am very happy to announce that partial implementations of exoplanets, observing sites, telegrams and converters are now available at arcsecond.io! Moreover, People, Finding Charts and Publications have been also included in the pipe and will be announced later, once available.

Let’s go through it.

What an exciting time! I am very happy to announce that partial implementations of exoplanets, observing sites, telegrams and converters are now available at arcsecond.io! Moreover, People, Finding Charts and Publications have been also included in the pipe and will be announced later, once available.

Let’s go through it. First, exoplanets. I’ve been using exoplanet.eu catalog since a long time in iObserve, and the current implementation in arcsecond.io uses that source. By itself, this catalog is already an aggregation of multiple sources. But the real value of arcsecond.io is integration. Hence, the exoplanets will be a consolidation of what exoplanet.eu return with that of the NASA Exoplanet Archive.

Second, observing sites. The story about these observing sites is amazingly long, since it became a concern at the origin of iObserve, when it was only a … dashboard widget, 10 years ago, with OSX Tiger! This is a new implementation now, and the definitive one, in arcsecond.io. It will allow to build a community-based source of information about observatories and observing sites.

As for now, the static list of observatories available in iObserve is available in GET only. But a lot more will come. Here is an example:

Next, Telegrams! Very happy to have started this section. Troubles will come with IAU Circulars, but at least here comes a partial implementation of Astronomer’s Telegram (GRBs will also be added soon):